Knee is still on the mend, waiting to hear whether or not reconstructive surgery will be covered or not but feeling a lot less antsy about it after hearing from my PT specialist and the second opinion doctor that it’s pretty common and even if it isn’t approved, I can still get around decently if I strengthen my upper legs to compensate for the instability. I’m very slowly getting the nerve to draw again- very, very grateful for the patience of everyone who has work they’re waiting on right now. It’s been kind of difficult to set up a good work space when my usual ‘work mode’ involves rearranging the living room to accommodate a folding table and for the first good chunk of my leave of absence, I couldn’t figure out a comfortable way to rest my XP-pen on my lap in bed. Now the the swelling is pretty well gone and I can plug or unplug cables without making a production of it, I’m catching up on a big job followed by some smaller gigs that should come out pretty fast.

I’m trying to decide on a price/product list to formally post soon since every little bit helps these days and it has felt nice to have people so interested in my work as seldom as I’ve posted lately and as crabby as I can get about commissions sometimes. I admit in the past I’ve been kinda shitty on social media when I was feeling overwhelmed and/or wanted to focus on personal projects instead, but I’ve been lightening up on it lately. Maybe it’s seeing how excited everyone is when I turn out a new character design for them, maybe I just needed a good break. Part of me is kicking myself for not getting more work done while I was out on injury, but I wound up shaking some bad habits like trying to juggle too many gacha or getting excessively down on myself for missing streams or forcing myself to stream when I wasn’t really in the mood. My biggest roadblocks right now are trying to keep my energy up outside work and trying to keep up with all the PT sessions and other appointments while work jerks my schedule around more. I have… ideas though.

Been getting into ‘boomer shooters’ after binge watching Civvie 11‘s stuff, and geez, I feel bad for sleeping on stuff like Duke 3D. It’s so much more interactive and cleverly designed than I would have expected, and I had written it off as “Doom, but with dirty jokes.” (Still not huge on Doom, I guess I prefer games with a little more of a screwing around factor.) I picked up Ion Fury from the Steam sale and while cool, I don’t think I like it as much. I mean, they made the grenade launcher an alternate firing mode for the shotgun, which I use at close range out of habit so sometimes I switch to it without noticing which barrel is attached and blow myself up with the splash damage.

disclaimer: i play these on a gamepad which i believe is the equivalent of putting ketchup on a well done steak to die hards